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lzotoe detu britches-i 'knowedg, te corn. Biut tWan't (1 it, C hoel't you're bor n Ef de motive am right, den what sde s111. I stole (em tritches o baptized in' Fur mv onliest par v as clean worn out; Uey gave up de ghost v ben I 'gun to shout. But 'i0ion am mighty and mus' prevail, 'I ho' it land a darkey in a county Jail. Th- c' a'n-gang's got me, and the coal mine too. But w'at could a 'fen-eless cullud man do? When de jodge and de jury 'lowed it was a sin To steal dem britches to be baptized in'. Tell all de folks howdy, and goodbye, too, I'll meet 'em in heaven when my work is through, Fur my heart is white, tho' my skin be black, I'm gwine to travel on de shinia' track. In de judgment, old Gabriel, he's gwine to say: "Pomp's straight as a shingle and clear as day." He'll shout to de world dat it wan't to sin TO steal dein britches to be baptized in. A PROXY PR-OPOSAL. "If in all our lives you need me- if there should ever be ~anything that I can do for you. I swear to do it. You can ask me'nothing which, at any per sonal sacrifice, kwill not endeavor to accomplish. You are rich. I poor. You are somebody; I am nobody. But the time may come when the promise will be worth something, and I will keep it." An hour before this speech was made, Frank Millard had saved Paul Holbrook's sister from a watery grave, and brought her safe in his strong arms to the very spot upon the beach at New t where the two men now stood tgeer. There never were two men so utterly unlike as Paul Holbrook and Frank Millard. The first a hard working professional man, who had struggled for such little success as Fate had meted out to him, unaided save by his own hands and brain. The other a man who had fortune for his friead from his birth: who neither toiled nor spun; who was a man of society; a member of clubs: and one with whom women always fell in love. From that day they were friends. And so it came to pass that, walking down Fifth Ave nue one day arm in arm, they met Rose Lewis, that Frank introduced her to Paul, that they turned and walked a block with her, and that, a few evenings afterward, Frank took Paul to call upon her. She was beautiful. But that tells you nothing about the woman-the frank, sweet, womanly woman with whom Paul fell in love before he had known her a month. Wrapped up in his profession, engrossed by strug gles for bread and butter, which, while they seldom prevent a man from do ing great things, always unfit him for society, Paul had known few women. He had no experience by which to guide himself, or by which to measure his own feelings. For a while he did not guess that he was in love, and so was drawn nearer and nearer to the whirlpool, until, when the truth at last dawned upon him, there was no retreat. It was out of the question that she should like him. It was im. possible for him now to cease to love her-to be happy without her. That she could care for him never entered his mind; that she did, would have been an absurdity too preposterous to dream of. But it was true, nevertheless. Rose said, "If he cares so little for me, I will make very sure that he does not guess I care one whit for him." Paul said, "She shall never laugh at me, though she does not love me. She shall respect me, and never guess her power, whatever pain I feel."~ And so )hey-met and parted, day after day; and no one guessed that anything troubled the heiress but Frank Millard; and only two, the same Frank Millard and Paul's sister Ruth, saw how pale Paul grew. Poor Ruth ! who in'her terror asked Frank Millard one day, if he thought that Paul were ill. "He is so unlike himself." she said. "I am frightened, Mr. Millard." And Frank had said, "I think that your brother cannot be very ill. If anything troubles him that will pass away." "But do you know of anything that can trouble Paull" asked Ruth. And Frank had answered, "PerhapsI guess at something, but I am not certain." They were together a good deal, Frank Millard and Ruth. It had entered Paul's head at times, that this fellow liked his sister very well; of late, that it was possible that he loved her. But Ruth, at seventeen, seemed a child to him. As she had said, he worked very hard, but toil could not banish the "haunted thought" of his life. It grw stronger instead of fading. At lathe resolved to try what charm there might be in absence; to leave the city, forbidding himself to meet the woman he hopeessy adoe; and availing himself of an offer which promised to be a stepping-stone to his professional success, put a barrier of miles of land and water between him self and Rose Lewis. At the same time Rose, scorning herself for the infatuation which she could not control, had also resolved to leave a place where every day bore in its arms a possibility of meeting the man who, with indif erence in his mien and coldness ini his speech, still haunted her presence so persistently, and following an example already set by most of hey fashionable friends, go to Europe, Tne A.s were going, and the B's. She should have pleasant company on the voyages, so she said to Frank Millard. On the same even ing Holbrook spoke of his departure to South America. "It's a good offer," he~ said. "I shall make money, and g'et on. Of course it's hard to 'leave Ruth alone; but she will board with an old friend, and be well protected." "You are doing well here." said Frank, doubtfully. "In one sense, yes. In another, no. A man must not peril his health." Frank asked no explanatipn. The days flew by.' Rose was ready for her tour. Paul for his departure. Frank had seen a good deal of both. One morning he sat in Paul's room, and talked as people do when their minds are on some subject which they hesitate to mention. At last he asked: "Have you bidden good-by to Rose Lewis?" Paul flushed, and shook his head. "It does not matter," he said. "We shall not probably meet again; nor will she care." "I think she wonld," said Frank. "You will hurt her by going so." Paul shook his head again. "'She will not care. Why should she?" and he tu-rned his head away to sytewords. In a moment more Frank spoke again: "Paul, you know I am neither a bashful man nor a cowar'd in most cases; but every man becomes one or both, under some circumstances. I have a favor to asked of you. You re member your promise to refuse me nothing I'could ask of you. The time has come when I have need of your aid. Will you give it to me -" . "Tell me what you want me to do?" "I want you to see Miss Lewis. I want you to tell her something which I have not the courage to tell her my saE..-to tell her a love story, in fa.t and see what she says to it. Will you do it? Paul stood dismayed. He- -he, of all men, to undertake such a task as this! he who loved Rose so madl! He stood bewildered. So Frau, splendid fellow, her mate in wealth, position and appearance, loved the girl also. If so she could not fail to love him in return. They were made for each other. That fancy that Frank admired Ruth was a mere dream too. The little woman's heart, sweet little Ruth's was thus unharmed. Yet it was all right. It was natural; but why choose him for a go-between? "I do not refuse, Frank," he faltered; "but you need not fear. She will love you. You are not one to sue n vain. "I am acoward." said Frank. "You are a good fellow. Paul, and you will do it." "But how " asked Paul. "I know nothing of such things. I have never told any woman of my own love. I shall harm yours in the telling." He was deathly white. But Frank went on unheeding: "Tell her a story-this: You know a man who hast loved her long, but who has never dared to say so. He feels that his own deserts are too small to entitle him to hope; but on the eve of parting he can restrain himself no longer; he must tell her that life is nothing without her, that her love is the only thing worth striv ing for; he must ask her in this strange way because he has not courage enough to do otherwise; to bid him hope or despair. Then she will ask who this lover is and you may tell her; not until then-not until all the story of the love is told. And you will bring me the anwer." Paul turned a ghastly face toward him. "You will tell the tale just as I have told you:" "Yes. " Then lie sought Miss Lewis. "You have come to wish me bon voyage," she said, as she held out her hand; but he only bowed and seated himself beside her. In a moment he said: "I have come upon an errand that will surprise you, Miss Lewis. I am commissioned to tell you a story." "That of some poor person?" she asked. "You have only to say that you know him to be in need, and worthy." "It is the story of one who asks a gift," he said, but not a gift of alms," his voice trembled-"a gift that only you can gi've-vou, of all the world." She looked at him shyly now. Her eyes dropped. "I know a man who has loved you for a long time," he went on, taking now a sort of fierce and bitter pleasure in this cruel usage of himself. "For months he has thought of you by day and by nioht, until there is but one woman to tle world to him-you. Of all the objects that there are upon the horizon of the future he sees only vour face. He could do anything for your sake; without you he will be nothing. He has seen no token of any liking for him in your face, nor heard it in your voice; yet he would have you hear his story, and know his fate, ere you are parted from him His na ie But then a sharp spasm of pain caught his breath. He paused for an instant. In that instant Rose turned toward him and put her hand in his. "My love is not worth so much," she said, tearfully. "But since you value it so highly, it is yours. It always-has been-since I frst knew you." And tears came faster, and wo-~ man's hysterical sobs. And what could he do but take in his arms this woman whom he adored, and whohad just admitted her love for him, under the impression that he had propsed to her. He was almost mad; he was quite distraught indeed. The suddenness of his happiness was in itself enough. And then there was the awful con sciousness of a terrible breach of trust. His utter joy and his woeful shame mingled themselves in his soul, as, having bidden Rose adieu, he found Frank Millard waiting tor him. Frank looked at-him. He turned away his nead.* "what have you been doing?" asked Frank. "Why do you look so?" "How can I ever make you believe that I have not played you false?" faltered Paul, and Frank brust into a laugh. "Yohaeproposedto her,"he said, "and she has accepted you?" Paul could not answer. "You have the right to take my life," he said; "but I-" '"Do you think I wanted to marry Rose," said Frank, "or that I dreamed she would accept me? I read your hearts too well. I knew your love, and your pride. I saw two who were made for each other tearing themselves asunder, and I took advantage of your foolish promise to place you in a posi tion in which it was impossible for you to conceal your true feelings. Some how I felt sure you wauld understand each other; and at the worst I should only have refusal. My happiness, as I think you must guess, is depend ent on what Ruth will answer me some day, and I think I shall have courage enough to do without your aid in this case." When Rose Lewis returned from her European tour-a very brief one there was a double wedding; and since Rose and Ruth were the names of the two brides, it is easy to guess who were their bridegrooms. The Military Accedemy. CorxxmBI, S. C., Aug. 2.-The an nual summer meeting of the board of visitors of the South Carolina Military Academy was held in this city yester at the Hetel Jerome for the purpose of receiving and passing upon applica tions for premission to make the comn petitive examinations for the thirteen vacant scholarships in the accademy, which examinations are to take place on September 12th in the several coun ties wherein the vacancies exis, being conducted by the county boards of ex amiuers of those counties. The? : were present the chairman, General Johnson Hagood; the secret ary, Mr. Butler Hagood ; Col. John P. Thomas, Mr. M. B. McSweeney and Suprentendent of Education May field. The board received 74 applications, of which only seven were rejected for one cause and another. These applica tions came from the several counties as follows: Aiken 10, Anderson 10. Berkeley 2, Charleston 9, Hlorry 4. Orangeburg,8S, Spartanburg 5, York 4. Permits were issued to the makers of the aboveapplications and they will stand the examinations on September 12th. The board completed its work and adjourned about 4 p. n.- State. War Between Factions. NAsHVILLE, Tenn., August 28. Bristol, Tenn., special to the banner says: A bloody war between two fac tions. resulting from a long standing feud, has been fought in the Cumber land Mountains, seventy-five miles north of here, on the X irginia and Kentucky lines. A number of Boyd's relatives and Thomas' relatives, with Winchesters, met at an illicit distil lery. where the battle began. Four men, John Boyd. Wilcox, Will Thomas and Floyd Thomas, are dead GLORIES OF HEAVEN. REV. DR TALMAGE TO THE BEREAVED AND FAINT HEARTED. He Glowlngly Piernres the Attractions of rthe World Ieyond-The Health, the Splendors. the Reunions. and the Song of Heaven. NEw YORK, A ug. 25.-For the be reaved and faint heai ted there could be no words of stronger consolation or encouragement than those of the sermon prepared by Rev. Dr. Talmage for today. His subject was "Surpassing Splendors." With inimitable touch, he has pictured the :zlories and attrac tions of the world beyond the skies in a way to bring joy to believinz souls and to fascinate even the thoughtless and indifferent. The text chosen was, "Eye hath not seen nor ear heard," I Corinthians ii 9. "Iam going to heaven! I am going to heaven: Heaven! Heaven Heav en!" These were the last words uttered a few days ago by my precious wife as she ascended to be with God forever, and is it not natural as well as Christ ianly aypropriate that our thoughts be much directed toward the glorious residence of which St. Paul speaks in the text I have chosen? The city of Corinth has >een called the Paris of antiquity. Indeed for splen dor the world holds no such wonder today. It stood on an isthmus washed by two seas, the one sea bringing the commerce of Europe, the other the commerce of Asia. From her wharves, in the construction of which whole kingdoms had been absorbed, war galleys with three banks of oars pushed out and confounded the navy yards of all the world. Huge handed machinery, such as modern invention cannot equal, lifted ships from the sea on one side and transported them on trucks across the isthmus and set them down in the sea on the other side. The revenue officers of the city went down through the olive groves that lined the beach to collect a tariff from all nations. The mirth of all people sported in her Isthmaian games, and the beauty of all lands sat in her theaters, walked her porticoes and threw itself on the altar of her stupendous dissipations. Column and statue and temple bewildered the be holder. There were white marble fountains into which, from apertures at the side, there rushed waters every where known for health giving quali ties. Around these basins, twisted into wreaths of stone, there were all the beauties of sculpture and architecture, while standing, as if to guard the costly display, was a statue of Hercu les of burnished Corinthian brass. Vases of terra cotta adorned the ceme teries of the dead-vases so costly that Julius Coesar was not satisfied until he had captured them for Rome. Armed officials, the "Corinthiarii," paced up and down to see that no stat ue was defaced, no pedestaloverthrown no bas-relief touched. From the edge of the city a hill arose, with its mag nificent burden of columns and towers and temples-1,000 slaves awaiting at one shrine-and a city so thoroughly impregnable that Gibraltar is a heap of sand compared with it. Amid all that strength and magnificence Corinth stood and defied the world. Oh, it was not to rustics who had never seen anything g-rand that St. Paul uttered this text. They had heard the best music that had come from the best instruments in all the world, they had heard songs floating from morn ing porticoes and melth in evening groves, they had passed their whole lives away among pictures and sculp ture and architecture and Corinthian brass, which had been molded and shaped until there was no chariot wheel in which it had not sped, and no tower in which it had not glittered, and no gateway thatit had not adorned. Ah, it was a bold thing for Paul to stand there amid all that and say; "All this is nothing. These sounds that come from the temple of Neptune are not music compared with the har mony of which I speak. These waters rushing in the basin of Pyrene are not pure. These statues of Bacchus and Mercury are not exquisite. Yon cita del of Acrocorinthus is not strong compared with that which I offer to tae porest slave that puts down his b en at that brazen gate. You, Co rinthians think this is a splendid city ; you think you have heard all sweet sounds and seen all beautiful sights; but I tell you 'eye bath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man the things which God ath prepared for them that love him.'" You see my text sets forth the idea that, however exalted our ideas may be of heaven they come far short of the reality. Some wise men have been calculating how many furlongs long and wide heaven is, and they have calculated how many inhabitants there are on the earth, how long the earth will probably stand, and then they come to this estimate-that after all the nations had been gathered to heaven, there would be a room for each soul, a room 16 feet long and 15 feet wide. It would not be large enough for me. I am glad to know that no human estimate is sufficient to take the dimensions. "Eye bath not seen, nor ear heard,"- nor arithmetic calculated. I first remark that we can in this world get no idea of the health of heaven. When you were a child, and you went out in the morning, how you bounded along the road or street -you had never felt sorrow or sick ness! Perhaps later--perhaps in these very summer days-you felt a glow in your cheek and a spring in your step, and an exuberance of spirits, and a clearness of eye, that made you thank God you were permitted to live. The nerves were harp strings, and the sun light was a doxology, and the rustling of the leaves were the rustling of the robes of a great crowd rising up to praise the Lord. You thought that you knew what it was to be well, but there is no perfect health on earth. The diseases of past generations come down to us. The airs that float now on the earth are uni like those which floated above paradise. They are charg-ed with impurities and distempers. The most elastic and ro bust health of earth, compared with that which those experience before whom the gates have been opened, is nothing but sickness and emaciation. Look at that soul standing before the thron a. On earth she was a lifelong invalid. See her step now and hear her voice now. Catch if you can one breath of that celestial air.- Health in all the pulses! Health of vision; health of spirits, immortal health. No racking, cough, no sharp pleurisies,.no consuming fevers, no exhausting pains, no hospital of wounded men. Health swinaimg in the air; health tIowing in a01l the streams; health blooming on the banks. No headaches, no sideaches, no backaches. That child that died in the agonies of croup, hear her voice now ringing in the anthem. That old man that went bowed down with the infirmities of age, see him walk now with the step of an im mortal athlete-forever young again ! That night when the needlewoman fainted away in the garret a wave of the heavenly air resuscitated her for ever-for everlasting years to have neither ache nor pain nor weakness nor fatigue. "Eye hath not seen it; I remark further that we can it; this world get no just idea of the splendor ,f heaven. St. John t-ies to describe it. le says, "The 12 gates are 12 pearls," and that "the foundations of the wall are garnished with all man ner of precious stones." As we stand looking through the telescope of St. John we see a blaze of amethyst and pearl and emerald and sardonvx and chrysoprasus and sapphire-a ~moun tain of light, a cataract of color, a sea of glass and a city like the sun. St. John bids us look again, and we see thrones--thrones of the prophets, thrones of the patriarchs, thrones of the angels, thrones of the apostles, thrones of the martyrs, throne of Jesus, thorne of God. And we turn round to see the glory, and it is- - Thrones: Thrones: Thrones: St. John bids us look again, and we see the great procession of the redee T - ed passing. Jesus, on a white horse, leads the march, and all the armies of salvation following on white horses. Infinite cavalcade passing, passing; empires pressing into line, ages fol lowing ages. Dispensation tramping on after dispensation. Glory in the track of glory. Europe, Asia, Africa and North and South America press in, into lines. Islands of the sea shoulders to shoulder. Generations before the flood following generations after the flood, and as Jesus rises at the head of that great host and waves his sword in signal of victory all crowns are lifted, and all ensigns-flung out, and all chimes rung, and all hal leluiahs chanted, and some cry, "Glory to God most high," and some, "Hos anna to the Son of David," and some, "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain" --till all exclamations of endearment and homage in the vocabulary of heaven are exhausted, and there come up surge after surge of "Amen: Amen: Amenl' "Eye hath not seen it: ear hath not heard it." Skifn from the summer waters the brightest sparks, and you will get no idea of the sheen of the everlasting sea. Pile up the splendors of earthly cities, and they would not make a stepping stone by which you might moun to the city of God. Ev ery house is a palace. Every step a triumph. Every covering of the head a coronation. Every meal is a ban quet. Every stroke from the Lower is a wedding bell. Every day is a jubi lee. every hour a rapture, and every moment an ecstasy. "Eye hath not seen it; ear hath not not heard it." I remark further we can get no idea on earth of the reunions of heaven. If you have ever been across the sea and !met a friend or even an acquaintance in some strange city, you remember how your blood thrilled, and how glad you were to see him. What then, will be our joy, after we have passed the seas of death, to meet in the bright city of the sun those from whom we have long been separated: After we have been away from our friends 10 or 15 years, and we come upon them, we see how differently they look. The hair has turned, and wrinkles have come in their faces, and we say. "How you have changed!" But, oh, when you stand before the throne all cares gone from the face, all marks of sorrow disappeared, and feeling the joy of that blessed land, methinks we will say to each other, with an exultation we cannot now im agine, "How you have changed " In this world we only meet to part. It is goodby, 'oodby, farewells floating in the air.' 'Ve hear it at the rail car win dow, and at the steamboat wharf goodby. Children lisp it, and o1. age answers it. Sometimes we say it in a light way--"goodby"-and sometimes with anguish in which the soul breaks down. ~Goodby ! Ah ! That is the word that ends the thankgiving ban quet; that is the word that comes in to close the Christmas chant. Goodby: goodby !But not so in heaven. Wel comes in the air, welcomes at the gates welcomes at the house of many man sions--but no goodby. That group is constantly being augmented. They are going up from our circles of earth to join it-little voices to join the an them, little hands to take hold of it in the great home circle, little feet to dance in the eternal glee, little crowns to be cast down before the feet of Jesus. Our friends are in two groups --a group this side of the river and a group on the other side of the river. Now there goes one from this to that, and another from this to that, and soon we will all be gone over. How many of your loved ones have already entered upon that blessed place ! If I should tak-e paper and pencil, do you think I could put them all down ? Ah, my friends, the waves of Jordan roar so hoarsely we cannot hear the other side where their group is augmented. It is graves her3 and coffins and hiear ses there. A little child's mother had died, and they comforted her. They said: "Your mother has gone to heaven. Don't cry." And the next day they went to ~the graveyard, and they laid the body of the mother down into the ground and the little girl camne up to the verge of grave, and looking down at the body of her mother said, "Is this heaven?" Oh, we have no idea what heaven is: It is the grave here it is darkness here, but there is merry making yonder. Methinks when a soul arrives some angel takes it around to show it the wonders of that blessed place. The usher angel says to the newly arrived: "These are the martyrs that perished at Piedmont. These were torn to pieces at the In quisition. This is the throne of the great Jehovah. This is Jesus !" "I am going to see Jesus," said a dying; negro boy. "I am going to see Jesus."' And the missionary said, 'You are sure you will see him?" "Oh, yes; that's what I want to go to heaven for." "But," said the missionary, "suppose that Jesus should go away from heaven-what then ?" "I should follow him," said the dying negro boy. "But if Jesus went down to hell what then?" The dyino boy thought for a moment and t~ien ~lhe said, "Massa. .where Jesns is there can be hell!:" Oh, to stand in his presence ! That will be heaven! Oh, to put our hand in that hand which was wound ed for us on the cross, to go around amid all the groups of the redeemed and shake hands with prophets and apostles and martyrs and with our own dear, beloved ones--that will be the great reunion. 'We cannot imag ie it now, our loved ones seem so far away. When we are in' trouble and lonesome, they don't seem] to come to 'We go on the banks of the Jordan and callI across to them, but they don't seem to hear. 'We say, "Is it well with the child, is it well with the loved one" and we listen to hear if any voice comes back over the waters. None! None: Unbelief says "They are dead and extinct forev~er,"- but, blessed be God, we have a Bible that tells us different. We open it and find that they are neither dead cr extinct; that they never were so much alive as now: that they are only waiting for our coming, and that we shall join them on the other side of the river. Oh, glorious reunion!I we cannot grasp it now- "Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love him." I remark again we can in this world get no idea of the song of hea'cen. You know there is nothing more mn spirting than music. In the battle or Waterloo the highlanders wvere giving the bands of mieic had aso piaSmg iliesnt a ruick dispttch. telling them to p'-: u i h utmo)st spirit a bAttle march'. Th music started. the high landers we-e raillid. and thwy dashed on till the day was won. We appre ciate the p nwer of sec ular music. but do weap'~ cpreiate the power of sacred song: There ii nothing morning more inspiring to me thin a whole congre ation lifted up on the wavc of holy melody. When we sing some of those dear old psalms and tunes, they rouse all the memories of the past. Why. some of them were cradle songs in our father's house. They are all sparkling with the morning dew of a thousana Christian Sabbatis. They were sung by brothers and sisters gone now, by voices that were aged and broken in the music-voices none the less sweet because they did tremble and break. When I hear these old songs sung, it seems as if all the old country meet ing houses joined in the chorus, and Scotch kirk and sailors' bethel and western cabins, until the whole conti nent lifts the doxclogy, and the scep ters of eternity beat time to the music. Away, then, with your starveling tunes that chill the devotions of the sanctuary and make the people sit si lent when Jesus is coming tohosanna. But, my friends, if music on earth is so sweet. what will it be in heaven? They all know the tune there. Me thinks the tune of heaven will be made up partly from the songs of earth, the best parts of all our hymns and tunes going to add to the song os Moses and the Lamb. All the best singers of all the ages will join it-choirs of white robed children, choirs of patriarchs, choirs of apostiles, morning stars clap ping their cymbals, harpers with their harps. Great anthems of God roll on, other empires joining the harmony till the thrones are full of it and the nations all saved. Anthem shall touch anthem, sounds join chorus, a-,id all the sweet sounds of earth and heaven be poured into the ear of Christ. David of the harp will be there. Gabriel of the trumpet will be there. Germany, redeemed, will pour its deep bass voice into the song, and Africa will add to the music with her matchless voices. I wish we could anticipate that song I wish in the closiong hymns of the churches today we might catch an echo that slips from the gates. Who knows but that when tie heavenly door opens today to let some soul through there may come forth the strain of the jubilant voices until we catch it ? Oh, that as the song drops down from heaven it might meet half way a - song coming up from earth: It Will Not Down. RALEIGH, N. C., Aug. 27.-Ex.Sen ator Thomas J. Jarvis today made the first of a series of speeches he inter ds to deliver in the State on the finan .ial question. He spoke to a large crowd at Morganton and advocated the free and unlimited coinage of silver. The money question, he said, would no1 down. It sat by every fireside, hov ered over every industry and was up. permost in the thoughts of every man He did not profess to know all aboul it. but there were some who had noi given the subject mature thought, and to them he spoke. He said that the silver dollar was made the standard by the father of the republic and had continued the standard until the pass age of the Act of 1873. Since that time the purchasing power of golc had been contmnually increasing anc the prices of all produce had been con tinually decreasing. The remedy wa to restore silver to the place it hek before 1873. He said that ideal money was fixed and stable, preventing thE enhancement of debts and assuring the creditor an equitable payment Both metals, not one, experiencE showed to be this ideal money. Sen ator Jarvis denounced the recent pan ic as a conspiracy of the money powel and said that the present low prices were the direct result of the apprecia tion of gold. Killed by Lightning. FLOR ENoE. August 20.-During .i thunder storm that passed over thi: city about 11 o'clock this morning Lilly May, the fourteen-year-olc daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. R Eagerton, who resides in McFarlar street,was instantly killed by a stroke of lightning. It was a strange freak, inasmuch as there was no sign o1 where the lightning struck. The gir: was standing at a washtub wringms~ some clothes near the pump by the side of the piazza. Belle, her youngel sister, was sitting in the piazza, ancd several other children were nlaying when the flash came. Lilly fell dead and Belle -was badly shocked. The other children received a slight shock but soon ran in the house and told their mother, who immediately rar out and picked up Lilly's lifeless forrr and carried it into the house. The sad occurrence has cast a gloom over the city, as she had many friends here. Drunken Excursionists. LEXINGTON, Ky., Aug. 22. -While an excurson train from Knoxville, Tenn., to Cumberland Gap was goi ne at full speed, a number of intoxicatec pasegers commenced a fight. The train men, assisted by Capt. Wynne. superindent of the Knoxille, Camber land Gap and Louisville Railroad, at. tempted to restore order, when the belligerents drew knives and pistole and tired in the car heedlessly. Wher order was restored, two of the excurs ionists were dead from pistol wounds and Capt. Wynne was dangerously cut about the head and shoulders. Owing to the fact that the Cumberland Gap tunnel is caved in, it is impossible to get communication with any stator near the tragedy to learn further par ticulars.__________ How is This for Freedom. SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,- Aug. 25.-Geo. Schilling. Secretary of the State bu. reau of labor statistics, who was sent to Spring Valley by order of Gov ernor Altgeld to investigate the trouble between thie Italian and negro miners there, will state in his report to the Governor that the imperted colored miners were the cause of the tr-ouble entirely. The town had always been peaceful until the negroes were brought there. All the citzens side with the Italians. The report con cludes with the recommendation that the negroes be removed from the town or more trouable will break out. Three JMund red People l'OIS4,ned LAI'oRTE, Ind., Aug. 20. -Three hundred out of one thousand people were poisoned at a German Lutheran mission festival, or picnic, in a grove at Tracy. this county, yesterday. A picnic dinner was served, and it is thought some miscreant poisoned the potatoes or drinking water. The vic tims were attacked with frightful pains, purging and vomiting, and rolled and tumbled on the ground in agony until medical aid was secured. As yet, none have died, but many are still very ill. T wo hundred and tiftv were present from this city. A Victim of Clgarettes. iEx n:ln, Mo., Aug. 25.-Oscar Cun ningham, a young man, died last night f-om the etJeets of cigarette poisoning. When dleath came lie was smoking a cigarette, and had grown so emaciated fro the use of thte p)oison that he had to take his bed ie awoke at 12 oclok- last night, rolled a cigarette. lighted, called for a drink of water and expiiredl in an instan; If" smioked WIO WILL COMPOSE IT. THE DELEGATES ELECTED TO THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION. The Cownirvatives [ave Forty 31embers and the Republican4 Six--Tio Curios from the Ring. .treaked and Striped Convention will be )elegates. COLUMIUA, S. C., Aug. 26.-The in terest of the people of the State is now centered upon the eighth Constitution al convention that the State has ever had which is to assemble in the hall of the House of Representatives here exactly two weeks from tomorrow at the hour of high noon, to be called to order by Secretary of State Tompkins. The convention is now practically at hand, and any information prelimin ary to the assembling of the conven tion is read with interest by the people. The Convention will be composed of 160 delegates. Of these 40 are Con servatives and 6 are Repbublicans. All of the Republicans are negroes and they are the only negroes in the convention. There are in the conven tion, however, a great many very con servative Reformers. Beaufort sends a solid Republican delegation of 5 ne groes, and Georgetown sends the other Republican, who was elected on a compromise ticket. Charleston was the only county in the State to send a solid Conservative delegation, the other Conservative counties having divided their delega tions with the efomers. It will be a matter of general inter est to know that there will be only two members of this convention who sat in the last constitutional convention in 1868. They are Robert Smalls, the "Gllah Statesman," and W. J. Whip per, both negroes. It may be interest ing, too, to know that the last con vention was called to order by Tim othy Hurley, of Berkeley; that Sena torT. J. Robertson, of this city, was made temporary chairman and that Albert G. Mackey was president. There is a great amount of speculation as to who will be made temporary chairman of the coming convention and as to who will be president. The name of Congressmon Talbert is. men tioned in connection with both posi tions, as is also that of Speaker Ira B. Jones. Much has been said as to what the convention ought to and will do, but the following summary of Senator Tillman the other day pretty well cov ers the ground: "The main subjects to be discussed are suffrage, divorce, schools, and questions as to how the courts shall be formed; whether the judoes are to elected by the people or theLegislature." Among the notable members of the convention will be Senator Tillman, Governor Evans, Congressman Talbert, ex-Congress men Geo. D. Tillman and Geo. John stone, ex-Governor Sheppard and oth ers. Here is the roll of delegates that will compose the convention: Abbeville-Wm. C. McGowan, I. H. McCalia, J. C. Klugh. R. R. Hemp hill, Frank B. Gary, R. F. McCaslan. Aiken-John Gary Evans, F. P. Woodward, R. L. Gunter, D. S. Hen derson. Anderson-J. P. Glenn, L. D. Har rison, J. E. Breazeale, D. H. Russell, G. E. Prince, J. M. Sullivan. Barnwell-Robert Aldrich, G. D. Bellinoer, C. M1. Hires, W. C. Smith, A. H. 'Iatterson, G. H. Bates. Beaufort-Robert Smalls, James Wio., Tom Miller, Isaiah Reed, W. J. Whipper. Berkelev-J. B. Morrison, J. B. Wiggins, TE. J. Dennis, Win. Hender son, A. H. DeHay, H. H. Murry, W. M. Breeland, R. C. McMakin Charleston-Theo. G. Barker, J. K. P. Bryan, J. N. Nathans, A. S. Far row, Julian Mitchell, Sr., George F. Von Kolnitz, Jr., W. M. Fitch, Joseph Oliver and W. St. Julien Jervey. Chester-T. J. Cunningham, J. Lyles Glenn, Geo. W. Gage, R. 0. Atkinson. Chesterfield-W. P. Pollock, E. N. Redfearn, F. P. Taylor, E. F. Ken nedy. Clarendon-James M. Sprott, Jos. S. Cantey, D. J. Bradham, J. W. Kennedy Colleton-M. P. Howell, C. W. Garris, D. H. Behre, M. R. Cooper and L. E. Parler. Darlington-H. C. Burn, J. N. Par rott, J. 0. A. Moore and A. T. Peritt. Edgefield-B. R. Tillman, W. J. Talbert, George D. Tiilman, W. H. Timmerman, J. C. Sheppard and R. B. Watson. Fairfield-RH. A. Mears, W. L. Ros borough, G. WV. Ragsdale snd T. W. Brice. Florence-B. B. McWhite, R. M. MCown, J. S. Hutchison, J. 0. Byrd. Georgetown-S. H. Reid, E. F. Mat thews, and Robert S. Anderson, col ored. Greenville-S. WV. Gray, J. Thomas Austin. Hugh Barton, Hug~h B. Buist, H. J. Haynesworth and Capt. G. G. Wells. Hampton-W. S. Gooding, A. S. Harrison, C. S. C. Hutson. Horry-J. P. Durham, J. A. Mc Dermott, Jeremiah Smith. -Kershaw-C. L. Winkler, J. W. Floyd and J. T. Hay. Lancaster-Ira B.- Jones, S. N. Es tridge, J. W. Hamel. Laurens-J. L. M. Irby, A. S. Smith, . HI. Wharton, R. L. Henry. Lexington-C. M. Efird. J. L. Shuler, and the Rev. E. S. Lybrand. Marion-WV. J. Montgomery, E. B. Berry, J. E. Ellerbe. J. D. Montgom ery. Malborc-W. D. Evans, T. E. Dud le, H. H. Hodges, T. I. Rodgers. Newberry-J. A. Sligh, Joseph L. Keitt, George S. Mower, George John stone. Oconee-JT. C. Alexander, O. M. Doyle, William J. Stribling. Oangeburge-J. William Stokes I. W. Bowman, L. S. Connor, E. H. Houser, A. K. Smoak, U. R. Lowman. Pickens-WV. T. Field, WV. T. Bo wen, R. F. Smith. Richland-Jno. T. Sloan. H. C. Pat to, J. J1. McMahan, Wilie Jones. John B. Dent. Sumter-H. D). Lee, J1. A. Scarbor ou gh, T. B. Fr-aser, George P~. Meka gen, Shepherd Nash, R. P. Stack house. Spartanburg-Stanyarnle Wilson, C. A. Barry, WV. T. Uobo, WV. U. Row land, A. S. XWaters, T. E. Johnson and V. E. Carver.I Union-G. T. Douglass, WV. A. Nichelson, G. A. Peak and J. C. Otts. W~illiamsburg-Thos. M. Gilland, S. WV. Gamble, WV. R. Singletary, Geo. .J. Graham. York-A. HI. White, J. S. Br-ice, .. F. Ashley. WV. B.- Wilson and S. 1E W ~hite. ________ H arvest of the Plague. Lscos, Aug 23.-A Shanghai dis ~atch~ which the Chronicle will7 publish tomorrow says that oflicial reports show that there have been 40,001) deaths from cholera in Pekin during the present month. Shot 11cr Cruel Husband. SvNNAHi, Ga., Aug. 25.-Louisa Flod. a young white woman, to-day shot and" probably fatally wounded her husband at their honme near Bloomingdale, in this county. Floyd QUADRUPLE LYNCHING. Suimmary Justice Meted onit to Four 31tr derers. YREKE, CAL, Aug. 26.-Four mur derers were taken from the county jail by a mob of 250 men at 1 o'clock this morning and lynched. A band of citizens, fearing that the law would not be carried out and angered over the atrocity of recent crimes, deter mined to take matters into their own hands. The lynching was the ghastly climax to the reign of lawlessness which has prevailed in Sisikiyou County for some months past. One of the victims was Lawrence Johnson, who on the evening of July 28 stab bed his wife to death in the town of Etna. Another was William Null, who shot Henry Hayter in the back with a rifle near Clahans, on April 21. Louis Moreno and Garland Seemler, who are supposed to have killed George Sears and Casper Meirehans at Bailey Hill on August 5, were also hanged. At 11 o'clock last night farmers from all of the surrounding country began to drive into town, and by midnight the mob was ready to march to the county jail. Before taking a step, however, every precaution was taken to prevent the plans of the lynchers from beinca frustrated by the officers of the law. 'he sheriff and one of his deputies were decoyed to another part of the town by members of the mob, who engaged in a sham fight, and the firebell was muffled to prevent an alarm being given'in that way. When the jail was reached a number of the men,. all of whom where masked, awakened Under Sheriff Radford and demanded the keys froma him. He positively refused to open the door or to give up the keys, telling them if they broke in the door he would blow their brains out. Finding that Radford was deter mined not to give them the keys, they went across to the jail and got on top of a stone wall which sourrounded the jail. Deputy Sheriff Henry Brahtlacht, who has been sleeping in the jail since the commitment of so many murder ers, thinking some one was escaping from the jaiI fired two shots out of the window to alarm City Marshal Parks and Deputy Sheriff Radford. He then opened the doors and was immediate ly held up by the mob, who took the keys from him and entered the jail. Having no keys to the different cells, they were compelled to burst the locks with a sledge hammer, which they proceeded to do at once. Lawrence Johnson, who brutally stabbed his wife to death at Etna on Sunday evening, July 28, was the first to receive the attention of the mob. They broke the lock from the door of his cell, and placing a rope around his neck led him out of the jail and across the street to where an iron rail was laid between the forks of two locust trees. Johnson pleaded for mercy, but the silent gathering gave no heed to his appeals, and he was quickly strung up, dying from strangulation in a few minutes. The mob returned to the jail and then broke into the cell of William Null, who shot Henry Hayter at Clahans on April 21, in a dispute over a mining property. Null desired to make a statement, but time was too valuable to permit any such prelimi naries, and he was soon hanging alongside of Johnston. Lo'uis Moreno, who is charged with having killed George Sears on the 5th of this month, was taken from his cell and was soon si~inging with John ston and Null. The last and youngest of the four murderers to pay the penalty of his crime was Garland Seemler, aged about 19, who, in company witr~o reno, was charged withiliaving killed Casper Meirerhans at Bailey Hill on the 5th of this month. A rope was placed around Seemler's neck and he was led from the jail in his bare feet. Seemler begged for mercy, and his last words were: "Tell my dear old mother I am innocent of the crime." About this time Sheriff Hobbs, hav ing been notified, arrived on the scene, and starting for the jail door was commanded to halt, the command being emphasized by the display of several revolvers. He was told that the job had been done. Bthis time the groter part of the mob had disapersed, leaving only about thirty or forty men on guard, who soon left after the sheriff arrived. The bodies were taken down by Coroner Shoefield and Marshal Parks, who removed them in a wagon to an engine house, where they were laid side by side. The Coroner has sum moned a jury to hold an inquest. Yreke is a little mining town, and years ago was frequently the scene of mob violence. The summary man ner in which justice was measured out to the four murderers this morning reminded the pioneers of similar scenes during the gold excitement, forty years ago, when it was not an uncommon spectacleto awaken in the morning and see -the body of a no torious criminal dangling from a tree. Drowned Like Rlats. DExvER, Colo., Aug. 29.-A speial to the News from Central City, Golo., says: The accidental flooding of the Americus and Sleepy Hollow mines this afternoon caused the death, it is believed, of thirteen miners. Every effort is being made to rescue the un fortunate men, but little hope is enter tained. A little after :3 oclock the water in the lower workings of the Fisk mine, East of the main shaft, broke through the old workings of the vein, that has not been worked for a number of years. Coursing East wards, it struck the Americus. where two Italian minlers were at work in the lower part of the shaft. They were both drowned. In its course the water diverted to the Sleepy Hollow mine, the Eatsterly portion of the Fisk mine. Fifteen men were working in the Sleepy Hollow, threce of whom es caped. A courier was sent wina a wvarning to the adjacent mines, and all their work men escaped. Train Robber Killed. CRAND 1-APinS, Michi., August 25. ,John Smalley, who was shot and in staitly killed by Deputy Sheriffs Spof ford and McBain, at McBain, last night, was identifled today by Detect ive Jake Way as the mian who mur dered Detective George WV. Powers a~oard a Grand Rapids and Indiana train Wvedinesday night while it was leaving this city. Jake Way was with ~owers aboard the train when the murder was committed . Killed and~ fed Boys~ to Hlears. BuI~a PEsT. Aug. 29. -T wo Rou man ian trainers and exhibitors of perform ing bears have been arrested in D~ebrec zin, in Haiduck district, of Hungary. charged with having fed their animals on human Ilesh. In the course of their examination, the men admitted that they had killed four boys, cut their bodies into pieces and fed their bears with the Ilesh. The confession of the prisoners has aroused popular indigna tion to the highest pitch. FIne H~orses Burned. IzXIN;ToN, Ky.. Aug. 28.-The barn of Foxhall Keene, barned at daylight this morning. His imported stalon, Kallacrates, by Hermit, and the American stallion, Hyderbad. by ydr. A ll periseda in the flames. KI1 POWDER Absolutely Pure. A cream or tartar barng powder Highest of all in leavening strength.-La test United States Government Food Be port. Royal Baking Powder Company, 106 Wall St..N. Y. COTTON OUTLOOK BETTER. CHEERING WEEKLY BULLETIN OF THE CROP CONDITIONS. Issued by State Observer Bauer Tuesday The Rainy Weather and Its Effects Upon - the Outlook--Rice and Other Crops. CoLU3BIA, S. C., Aug. 28.-The fol lowing weekly bulletin of the condi tion of the weather and crops in the State, issued yesterday by State Obser ver Bauer, will be read with general interest in view of the heavy rainfalls of the past week: The weather conditions were,on the whole, favorable in.crop development during the past week, and there is, consequently, a better and more hope ful feeling extant among farmers, especially in the northern and western counties where the improvement was most marked. The only crop that did not share fully in the general im provement was cotton, for which there was too much rain, in places, causing shedding and rust to a slight ly greater extent than heretofore, es pecially in the eastern half of the State; in the western counties the weather was entirely favorable for cotton. The week was characterized by an even temperature along the coast, where it ruled steadily about two de grees above the usual; in the interior and western portions the fluctuations were somewhat greater, but well with in normal limits, the daily mean tem perature ranging from 4 degrees below the seasonabe on the 21st (Wednes day) to 4 above on the 25th (Sunday.) The highest temperature for the week was 96 degrees at Batesburg on the 20th and at Greenville on the 21st; the lc west was 59 degrees at Liberty, Pickens county, on the 22nd. The average daily mean temperature of 30 stations for the week was 79 and the normal for the same period is approx imately 78. The rainfall was fairly well distri buted,with no portion of the State but that received some, generally enough, and in a few localities it was excessive the latter in the Savannah drainage basin where some low lands were over flowed. In other places the effect on cotton of too much rain has already been noted. The average measurement of 37 sta tions reporting rainfall was 1.46 in ches, and the normal for the same pe riod is approximately 1.44. The great- - est amount was 4.90 reported from Allendale. The following places re ported amounts less than the normal: way, Tiller's Ferry, Longshore, itl Mountain, Trenton, Camden, States burg, McColl, Darlington, St. Mat thews, Yemnassee, Batesb~urg, Cheraw, Florence, Greenville and Spartan burg. The following places reported more than a normal amount:Lop er's, Reid, Blackville, Mont Clare, Branchville, Santuc, Beaufort,Colum bia, Elloree, Society Hill, Kingstree, St. George's, Greenwood and Allen dale. The percentage of sunshine ranged from 49 to 90 of the possible, with an average of about 70 for the State. There was a heavy rain and hail storm in the vicinity of Winnsboro on the 29th. There was also hail in the vicinity of Cartersville, Florence county, on the 21st that riddled tobac-. co and corn fodder, and damae crops generally. On the same .ly there was a violent wind storm in - the vicinity of Elloree, Orangeburg County, that blew down trees, corn etc. Many of the reports on cotton say the crop is all that can be expected, having grown well and fruited heav ily since the rains became general over the western pdrtions of the State; a few say it is growing too much to weed; there is scarcely a section but that reports excessive shedding and the appearance of rust, but both -are more common in the eastern portions of the State; the crop in g-eneral is in a very satisfactory condition ;the bolls are opening freely in the eastern and central sections and picking will be gin this week; the first bale was mar keted on the 20th, which was six days later than in 1894. Boll worms have appeared in Edgefield county. Late planted corn continues to im prove, being greatly benefitted by the - heat and rains and is practically all made; the only source of danger is freshets in river bottoms. Fodder pulling was pushed vigorously over the entire State,'but much of the fod der was damaged by the rains; some on the stalk and much while being gathered; the weather was generally unfavorable for gathering fodder. The entire corn crop is of a uniform excellence over the whole State. Peas are growing well and early peas are being gathered, but the ~ greater portion of the crop is still growing. The late tobacco'is yet in the fields, but the bulk of the crop is gathered, and cured and being sold. The crop was an unusually fine one and is bringing~ remunerative prices. Rice hIarvest has begun in a small way, while the crop in general, both upland and on the coast, is heading nicely. The weather has been entire ly favorable f or rice. - Turnip sowing continues to some. extent, while reports vary as to the condition of the stand of earlier sow ing, but generally it germinated and grew well. Under the influence of favorable weather, sugar cane and sorghum continues to grow well, and the crop promises to be a very fine one. Sweet potatoes are apparently grow- - ing too much to vine; otherwise are doing well. The improvement in this - crop within the last three weeks is noteworthy, with prospects of much larger crop than anticipated early in the season. Gardens, peanuts and in general all truck is doing remarkably well, espe cially in the coast truck region. Grass for hay, as well as pastures, is growing luxuriantly. In fact, the condition of all crops has been greatly A improved by the abundant rains of thfast two weeks. cniu tifl arieie of druaitycntnu plen.